10 Most Shocking James Bond Movie Moments

By the time of his fifth Bond film, For Your Eyes Only, audiences were used to the over-the-top, semi-comedic movies of Roger Moore. They kept getting bigger and more ridiculous, with the goofiness and gadgetry reaching a peak with Moonraker, where they went so far as to launch 007 into space. But the reins were pulled back with For Your Eyes Only, which was a much more stripped down spy movie, closer in tone in many ways to the earliest Bond instalments.

In one scene, Bond waits on a mountaintop as a henchman drives toward him. Standing under a stone arch — in a pose reminiscent of the gun barrel opening sequence — Bond fires at the car, causing it to careen out of control. When the car stops, it’s hanging halfway off the edge of a high cliff. 

Bond calmly walks over and kicks the car, sending the vehicle and its occupant crashing down to their doom, then delivers the line, “Had no head for heights.” It’s a scene of merciless justice, with a sharp, ruthless tone too often missing from the Moore era. If some had forgotten, due to the silliness of some of the Moore movies, how deadly Bond could be, this moment was sure to remind them.